Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 93
After living for some years very happily with his Bride, he thought that he would like to make a little money for himself by trading, so having procured a good stock of merchandise he set off for India, in the hope of making a good profit on his goods.
Who acts: Boy, good stock, hope · What happens: live, think, like, make, procure, set off · To what, where: little money, hope, good profit, goods, merchandise
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, good stock, hope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 living | mark |
| 2 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 years | det |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 living | obl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 happily | advmod |
| 7 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 2 living | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Bride | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Bride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 living | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 living | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 like | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 money | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 money | amod |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 himself | case |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 make | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 trading | case |
| 26 | trading | trading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 procured | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 procured | advmod |
| 29 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 procured | aux |
| 30 | procured | procure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 stock | det |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 stock | amod |
| 33 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 merchandise | case |
| 35 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stock | nmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 set | nsubj |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 procured | parataxis |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 set | compound:prt |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 India | case |
| 40 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 hope | punct |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 hope | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hope | det |
| 44 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 45 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 46 making | mark |
| 46 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 hope | acl |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 profit | det |
| 48 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 profit | amod |
| 49 | profit | profit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 making | obj |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 goods | case |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 goods | nmod:poss |
| 52 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 46 making | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | Boy not said here | year | with Boy's Bride; happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with bride=Location | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | would | Boy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | a little money | for Boy; by trading | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent money=Product for himself=Asset | |||
| 5 | procure | gerund · perfect | Boy not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | set off | past | a good stock of merchandise | the hope | for India; Boy nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | make | gerund | the hope not said here | a good profit | Boy's goods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product | |||
| 8 | stock | merchandise | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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